Of all of BMW's recent concepts, none are as daring as their pair of low emission "i" vehicles, the i8 and i3. Both those cars remain in the prototype stages, but Britain's Evo Magazine recently got to take a trip in the i8 on frozen lake in Sweden.
Read MoreThe motoring press keeps complaining how Mini is turning its lineup into a bloated mess with pointless cars, to which Mini responds by making even more of them. Meet the new Mini Paceman JCW.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreRemember when we showed you those photos of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee like, earlier today? If you doubted they were real, doubt no more. Jeep suddenly (and without telling us) released images of the new Cherokee with a short press release. Happy Friday!
Read MoreGosh, it's been a long time since Lamborghini gave the world a front-engined car. Technically, the last one was the monstrous LM002 SUV, but the last front-engine cars were the Espada and Jarama way back in the late 1970s.
Read MoreAttention, Saab owners. It doesn't get much more minty than this. This is a 1990 Saab 900 SPG that's so pristine, it used to be in a museum. And, to answer Patrick's Question of the Weekend from yesterday, it's the greatest hatchback of all time.
Read MoreAre you so in love with the supercar-slaying Nissan Juke R? Well then... prepare to be let down, because Nissan did not tell us they're building more of them at the Chicago Auto Show. Instead, they're bringing us the NISMO Juke.
Read MoreI love Ferraris. And I also love DSMs, especially the 3000GT, that under-appreciated beast of a car that was king of all the Mitsu-Chrysler collaborations back in the 90s. So it follows that if you put the two together somehow, the end product will be amazing, right?
Read MoreWhen Travis got the keys to a C63 AMG last summer, he did not complain about the lack of power coming from that 6.2-litre AMG V8. Even for us, 481 horsepower and 443 lb-ft of torque usually does the job. Then came the Black Series with 510 horses and 457 lb-ft of twist, and a price tag of $125,000.
Read MoreWe love cheap, weird, unreliable cars, but buying one doesn't always make sense. Jalopnik readers came up with ten justifications for taking the plunge.
Read MoreWith its highest horsepower and lowest suspension, the GT Speed is Bentley's most athletic production car. But what happens when you chop off the roof? Does it retain the qualities that make the Continental such a great ultra GT — its momentousness and poise — or is there just too much rarified air blowing into that sumptuous cabin? There's only one way to find out...
Read MoreWelcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreNo, BMW does not sell a 1-series wagon or hatchback in the United States. Yes, the BMW X1 is actually based on the E91 3-series wagon platform. No, you can't get it with a manual transmission here. Yes, you can get it with RWD. No, it isn't really an SUV. Yes, it's actually enjoyable.
Read MoreThe one car I knew I had to drive if I ever went to India was the Hindustan Ambassador. Going to India and not driving one would be like going to Philadelphia and not eating a cheesesteak, or going to Paris and avoiding the Eiffel Tower, or going to Colombia and not swallowing several condoms full of cocaine. You just can't avoid it.
Read MoreWelcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!If there was a dictionary entry for “failed roadsters” the Buick Reatta and Cadillac Allante would be right there. It’s not that they were especially bad cars, but they were compromised compared to what they were targeting (the Mercedes-Benz SL and the, um, whatever the Reatta was after). Bad marketing and a recession – not to mention rather insipid decisions l
Read MoreRemember the Chevy Aveo? You probably wish that you didn't. Chevy also hopes you don't. That's why they brought out this, the Sonic RS. Compared to the Aveo, it's the greatest car in the world.
Read MoreSome of the most lustworthy cars never seem to drop in price. Jalopnik readers know ten cars from the past ten years that have frustratingly refused to depreciate.
Read MoreIf you buy the right car, you can look like your paycheck has an extra zero at the end. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers know ten cars that are perfect for the job.
Read MoreYou don’t need a Lamborghini to look like you’re a billionaire.
Read MoreTopless supercars have come a long way since Lamborghini first chopped the roof off a Diablo, transforming it from merely sketchy to highly suspect. Back then, convertible versions were just a means to hoover up dumb money, a nod to buyers just barely more likely to take a V12 sports car to its limits than arrive in the south of France without a base tan. But things are different now. Open-top supercars are serious machines with technology up the wazoo (Or is that out the wazoo?) But is Lamborgh
Read MoreTerrifying... Well, at least to an American who's not used to the barely-cointained chaos of Delhi traffic and the moped with a backpack that is one of these three-wheelers. Well, I'll amend that my initial assesment — it was terrfying, but fun.
Read MoreAn incredibly long time ago, the entry-level Boxster was the best selling car in Porsche's entire lineup. The problem was that the wee little roadster wasn't generating the profits that Porsche needed to lay the groundwork for a successful future.
Read MoreRemember the car you had at 16? I remember mine. A Wrigley's-gum beige 1968 VW Beetle I saved up $600 to buy when I was 15, then waited and stared at every day until I turned 16 and could actually drive it. Of course, it was wrecked within a year or so, because that's what usually happens to cars owned by 16 year old idiots.
Read MoreBuying a midsize sedan is like buying a pair of men's loafers; lots of choices but few anyone would get excited about unless you're spending bank. There's the new Honda Accord, the perennially boring Toyota Camry, the nicely warrantied Hyundai Sonata, and the gorgeous Ford Fusion. It seems the Mazda6 was all forgotten.
Read MoreWe all love driving, but at a certain point you can cross a line of social acceptability. We saw a crash today that reminded us of this line.
Read MoreThe government would love to keep you from knowing any of this. If they had it their way, Jalopnik would be shut down and I'd be thrown into one of the secret gulags the Department of the Treasury operates inside Roosevelt's nostrils on Mt.Rushmore. But I won't keep quiet anymore. I'm gonna blow the lid off this thing once and for all, and tell you all the dark, disgusting, and filthy secrets behind the only car ever to appear on US money. It's on the back of the ten-dollar bill.
Read MoreOh look, a Michigan man had a 500 horsepower Viper V10 installed in a 1930 Rolls-Royce. I think I just found my new dream car.
Read MoreWe moan endlessly about the great European cars we don’t get in America, but Jalopnik readers know ten vehicles we get in the Land of the Free that Europe is sorely missing.
Read MoreWhen you own an old, no-longer-popular beater car, it can sometimes be difficult to find parts and information. My brand of automotive pain/pleasure currently lies in the realm of obsolete Subarus, and while they do have a decent following, they've never attracted the kind of money-spewing fanboys that, say, small block Chevy or BMW tuners have over the years.
Read MoreWe always moan about the beautiful, light, revvy cars that Europe never exports to the US. What about the cars that we don’t export over there?
Read MoreEver wondered what the name of your car means? Jalopnik readers are here to tell it’s probably just nonsense.
Read MoreEarlier today we showed you the first pictures of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee. It's the most daring Jeep design I've ever seen. But will all that daring make it a success or a failure?
Read MoreBowl season can be the worst, especially if you don't care about college football or your team has been kind of crappy the last few years. (I'm a Texas fan, I know what I'm talking about.) So some gearheads out in Sausalito, California have figured out a solution to this: the Anti-Football Run, and it's been going on for 23 years now.
Read MoreCar interiors should be simple, clear, and not distracting. Jalopnik readers, however, have found ten absurd dashboard that don't follow that formula.
Read MoreAfter DTM had folded in 1996, Mercedes-AMG entered the 1997 FIA GT Championship season with their CLK GTRs less than half a year after the first sketches were drawn. In order to speed up development, they bought the best car to get technology from: a McLaren F1 GTR.
Read MoreHere in the USA, you can almost always spot an Indian product. This is very different than Chinese products, which are so numerous and varied as to be anonymous. But Indian products you find in the America, they almost all have this artisan/handmade quality. Whether it’s jewelry in bins at Anthropologie or manhole covers or a pair of scissors, the hallmark of Indian exports is that they at least feel like someone made them by hand. And that goes for much of the automotive culture as well.
Read MoreIf you really think about it, a dashboard shouldn't be hard to get right. It's all about giving the driver the things they need while omitting the things they don't.
Read MoreWe like to think that if a carmaker builds a good car, people will buy it. Jalopnik readers know that’s not always the case.
Read MoreWilliam (I refuse to call him Will.I.Am) of the Black Eyed Peas has a penchant for custom cars. He customized the crap out of his Delorean to create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece/monstrosity. Now it looks like he's acquired yet another very customized, and very expensive ride.
Read MoreOn the drive back from the desert to Delhi, I asked if my car-mates had seen the massive old Rolls (we think) that just passed on the street. You yourself can see the car I'm talking about in my post about driving in India. No one other than me saw it, but one of the other passengers, a friendly guy named Ashish Bagga, said something to the driver in Hindi.
Read MoreThe Fiat 500 Abarth is one of the most hoonable cars on planet Earth. Despite being front-wheel drive, shaped like an Ostrich egg (and measuring about the same size), it oozes character, flamboyance, and drivability. It is, in fact, impossible to drive the little Abarth and not hoon – regardless of what the trip entails: You’ll hoon to the grocery store, hoon to pick up the kids; you’ll probably even hoon to a colonoscopy, such is the intoxicating nature of this mad Italian shoebox. The 500 Abar
Read MoreMuch of India’s population is Hindu, a religion that boasts a vast array of interesting deities. It’s said there are 330 million gods in the Hindu pantheon. That gives each god about three potential drivers to look out for. And from a driving perspective, that’s a very good thing, as a monotheistic culture would soon find its God hoplessly overworked just trying to keep all those people from killing themselves with their cars. India needs teams of gods working time-and-a-half just to keep the co
Read MoreOne of the most striking things an American will notice on India's highways is how almost all their cargo seems to be transported by these lavishly decorated and slightly ramshackle large trucks. They're everywhere, often overloaded to twice their normal height, and barrelling down the road with a gleeful disregard for traffic lanes, other cars, and even the fundamental laws of physics.
Read MoreHonda, you used to be one of my favorite automakers in the world. In a world of boring Toyotas, you were an exciting alternative. But somewhere in the last decade you forgot all of that. It makes me sad, and Honda, you're better than that.
Read MoreI knew I wanted to drive a Thar long before I had any idea I'd ever get to India. I was interested because it's one of the best automotive examples of evolution to an environment. Think of it this way: both the Thar and the Jeep we Americans know and love started with the same source: the WWII-era Willys Jeep. This was the first car Mahindra produced, via CKD kits under license from Willys. So, we can say that the Thar and the Jeep started out as brothers, possibly even identical twins. But they
Read MoreWait, didn't we just have an old-school BMW as our Weekend Wallpaper? We did, but after reader Christian Bouchez sent me this photo of his E30 Touring, I couldn't resist.
Read MoreI like my cars to be one of two things: Fast or interesting. Ideally, they should be both, but I'll settle for one or the other if I have to.
Read MoreWith the massive proliferation of cheap GoPros and other cameras, it seems like every second of Russia's free-for-all roads are now recorded. These are the thirteen most unbelievable moments from the year.
Read MoreIn Russia, everyone should have a camera on their dashboard. It’s better than keeping a lead pipe under your seat for protection (but you might still want that lead pipe).
Read MoreIs there anything worse than offering to buy a car left out in a field, getting refused by the owner, and then seeing it rot away?
Read MoreIt may be the funniest show on TV, but for car nerds, Archer is like a kiss on the mouth from Bar Refaeli. The animated spy comedy is swarming with cool cars. Watch any five minutes at random and you’ll see so much automotive eye candy, it's as if Hemmings, not the FX network, produced it. We grilled executive producers Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, and the show’s art and animation wizards, on how and why Archer provides the best car spotting on TV, from the pitch-perfect choices of its main char
Read MoreSometimes carmakers turn out some modern classics and the market knows it.
Read MoreWhen the McLaren F1 came out in 1992, standard equipment included a 627 horsepower BMW V12, air conditioning, electric windows and central locking, remote battery charging point with external charger, a flashlight in a tailored compartment next to the F1 Owner's Manual, a 10 CD Kenwood stereo system and a limited edition Tag Heuer 6000 with the car's serial number printed on its dial.
Read MoreWe tend to pile hate onto minivans, but now that crossovers have outpaced them as the Most Unadventurous Vehicles On The Road, maybe it’s time for a reappraisal.
Read MoreEarlier today we showed you the story of Corbin Goodwin and his rat rod Mazda RX7. While it looks really freaking cool now, this car was a two year labor of love that started in 2010. This is how it all came together.
Read MoreEntering the turn, aboard a NISMO 370Z, I stabbed the clutch, hit the gas, and turned a hard left. The backend pivoted heroically, the rear tires bellowed smoke, and I felt like the most badass motherfucker in history.
Read MoreWhat happens when a 21-year old takes a first generation RX7, throws out the rotary engine, puts in a V8, and makes a whole bunch of other questionable modifications? You get this: Corbin Goodwin's amazing RX7 hot rod. Holy crap nuggets is this thing cool.
Read MoreThe worst thing you can do in any business venture is overpromise and then also underperform. Jalopnik readers found ten cars that never had the engine they needed, or had an engine wasted on that platform.
Read MoreHave you ever considered modifying your car, but you weren't sure if the change would make people despise you? You're in luck. Jalopnik readers know exactly what car mods will make people think you're a dirtbag.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreWelcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time.
Read MoreWe all know General Motors needs to do something about the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, and it's vowed there's some kind of fix to make the midsize sedan remotely competitive among increasingly talented rivals. So while a hurry-up-and-fix-things refresh (in the style of the 2013 Honda Civic) is underway, the marketing department at Chevy is cutting prices too, but it's not just to entice people who walk onto the dealership lot.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreEver since the photos of the BMW 3-Series GT dropped this week, I've been thinking a lot about hatchbacks.
Read MoreThere are a lot of reasons you should read the New York Times Magazine profile of nascent R&B superstar Frank Ocean. It gives some great insights into the creative process, decisiveness, and personal history of the man behind the best album of 2012, Channel Orange. (If you think differently, you're wrong.)
Read MoreA few dozen inches of snow may scare most people into hiding in their homes, but for those of us who enjoy opposite lock and empty roads, it's a chance to come out and play in our cars.
Read MoreThere I was, explaining to my mom how I had just crashed the family Volvo 240 station wagon into a parked Corolla. "I couldn't have been going that fast, mom, the airbag didn't even go off."
Read MoreThere's a new show coming this April to SyFy called Defiance that puts vaguely elven aliens and humans, together, on the same battle scarred earth. It's sort of like post-war Vienna without all the zither music and black-market trade in penicillin.
Read MoreEvery few years, carmakers try and give their cars a bit of a facelift to keep them fresh. Jalopnik readers know ten operations that turned out botched.
Read MoreThe new Maserati Quattroporte uses buttons from Chrysler products on the interior because Chrysler and Maserati are now step brothers. People in the automotive world are all sorts of angry about it.
Read MoreThe mid-cycle refresh is a great opportunity for automakers to work the kinks out of the original design. Or not.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted an amphibious vehicle? Get in line, buddy! Luckily, this Volkswagen Type 166 Schwimmwagen is for sale in Connecticut — well, if you happen to have an extra $185,000 laying around.
Read MoreCars were born to fly, but jumps can easily go wrong. Jalopnik readers have put together the ten most painful, spine-crunching failed jump attempts in modern automotive history.
Read MoreWelcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time.
Read MoreI was reading a first drive review of the new Maserati Quattroporte the other day on the website of something called Car and Driver. It's safe to say the new QP isn't as seductive-looking as the outgoing model, mostly because it's noticeably bigger and wider.
Read MoreThe Rockford Files had the Firebird. Magnum P.I. had the Ferrari 308 GTS. Knight Rider had the black Trans Am. The BBC's Ashes to Ashes had the Audi Quattro.
Read More(Dr. Jim Norman, driver of the Napleton Racing #16 Porsche Cayman team that just won the GX class of the 2013 Rolex 24, has the funniest Rolex story you'll ever hear! In his own words — OHL)
Read MoreChevrolet dropped the much-anticipated Cruze diesel at the Chicago Auto Show today, saying that they're bringing a powerplant to America than can hold its own against any Volkswagen.
Read MoreSaturday's crash in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Race at Daytona was truly awful. Now the Taiwanese animation has been released and it's more ridiculous than you could possibly imagine.
Read MoreThose Top Gear challenges where a car is shot with lasers from a plane or helicopter are almost always won by the flying aparatus. Top Gear's counterparts in Korea just beat a helicopter with a Corvette ZR1. And that's because the helicopter crashed. Whoops.
Read MoreAll evidence indicates that it was a freak accident, but the collision between a 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago P640 and a 2013 Nissan GT-R in Lakeland, Fla. yesterday has the rumormill going. Was it a race? Police say no.
Read MoreAfter finishing a race with an R/C helicopter and a Suzuki GSX-R1000, the driver of this Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 went off the road and crashed. That's a bad way to wrap a day of shooting.
Read MoreEarlier we saw that the Pagani Huayra may have used different tires for its Top Gear test that helped it run an ultra-fast lap time. After exchanging emails with Pagani all morning, they finally admitted they did use two sets of tires and they "reported Pirelli Pzero Corsa on our press release because we want, for communication reasons, to push them on the media."
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago the Pagani Huayra set the fastest ever lap time around the Top Gear Test Track by a whopping 1.3 seconds. That's huge. Now, photos have surfaced that call the entire lap into question. It appears that the Huayra may have been shod with hand-cut slick tires. Uh oh. (UPDATE: Pagani responds!)
Read MoreIt's been a bad secret for the last few months, but I thought I should let everyone know, officially, that I am the proud owner of the most famous Merkur XR4Ti in the world. This is similar to having the world's most famous spaetzle press in that it's not particularly impressive, vaguely German, and a completely nonsense statement.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreShooting action packed driving scenes requires a fast ride for the camera crew as well as the hero. But sheer speed is not always enough for the perfect shot. A smooth ride on uneven surfaces is also pretty high on the priority list. For that reason, BBC's Top Gear is using a Range Rover. Jeremy Clarkson had this to say about filming the races:"A lot of people ask how we film these races, and whether they’re fixed. Well, let me say here and now, in print, they’re not. I follow a Range Rover trac
Read MoreLet's be honest: the military-aircraft-chasing-a-car formula is getting a little tired. However, Top Gear USA actually did a great riff on the cliché with some trees and a very sideways, very big Mercedes G-Wagen.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreFor the last few years, Ken Block has been destroying the tires on Fords like it was his job. And that's pretty much because it is his job.
Read MoreThe Mazda Miata has dominated the small, open top rear-drive market for nearly 25 years now. It's a personal favorite of mine as well as many on staff here. But the Toyobaru twins have been able to match it on the fun to drive scale. They just didn't have that open top flair.
Read More(While the Edsel was not a huge success, it spawned some of the most successful cars to ever come out of the Ford Motor Company. Daniel Strohl at Hemmings takes a look back at what was. - TO)
Read MoreToday we saw a bus going Maximum Touge Attack on a snowy Kansas City street, taking out a street light. It made us wonder if anything bigger has ever gone sideways.
Read MoreWe're still waiting on MTV blogger Marty Beckerman to post a story explaining what it was NASCAR driver Jeremy Clements said this weekend that resulted in Clements being suspended from the sport. But now a self-proclaimed NASCAR photographer has chimed in to say that the remarks were directed at a woman, and possibly more sexist than racist.
Read MoreAfter reading about His Holy Quitter, Pope Benedict XVI's exit in a Popecopter earlier today, the Jalopnik staff was, of course, talking about Popemobiles and the like. At that moment, I started to notice some strangely familiar things about the Pope. Who else was it that I knew of that had special cars and helicopters named after him? He also lives in a big mansion, has his presence announced in the sky occasionally (not white smoke, but with some kind of projection). I think there's people out
Read MoreFor sale right now in a suburb of Ontario is this, possibly the only Pagani Zonda kit car in the world. $5,000. Some assembly required.
Read MoreThe 2014 Jeep Cherokee debuted last week to some very mixed reviews. And by "very mixed," I mean mostly negative. Chrysler Group VP of Design Ralph Gilles has now spoken out about the new car, and he says it's "very contemporary."
Read MoreLand Rover will bring seven electric Defenders to the Geneva Motor Show. The research vehicles have an air-cooled drive system, and while the concept won't enter series production, the fleet will get dirty in special real world trials later this year.
Read MoreThere were quite a few stories to emerge out of this weekend's NASCAR races at Daytona, like Danica Patrick's history-making lap and the horrific crash at Saturday's Nationwide Series race. But one story that is just now coming to light is the "indefinite suspension" of driver Jeremy Clements over some remarks he made in an interview. News reports indicate it was some kind of racial slur. So what exactly did he say?
Read MoreIf you ask someone who doesn't like motorsports to name a racing driver, there is a good chance they'll only know a few names. One of those names will almost definitely be Mario Andretti, arguably America's greatest ever racer. And today is Mario's 73rd birthday. Here is what makes him far cooler than any of you reading this... unless you're Mario.
Read MoreWe get the feeling that a large number of car purchases are made to attract “the ladies,” but this strategy often backfires.
Read MoreEver get nailed by a traffic camera? Here's a brilliant way to get out of paying the fine: report your car as being stolen. It worked pretty well for one Australian man, who did it more than 20 times. Until the courts found out, anyway.
Read MoreBMW's performance cars carry one of two badges: M or Alpina. M cars lean towards the raucous side of things, Alpina cars tend to be a bit more gentlemanly. So if you want an M3 to take to the opera and you don't live in America, here is your car, the 2014 BMW Alpina B3 Biturbo.
Read MoreHey, wanna buy John Z. DeLorean's house in California? It's not as cool as you'd think it is. But it's pretty nice. And crazy expensive.
Read MoreRevving your engine on public roads can be very annoying for the people around. Except if you happen to be driving a Pagani Zonda 760RS. In that case, please go ahead and floor it as hard as you can! But for the rest of us, it's best to keep going quietly until we find a tunnel. Then...
Read MoreI expect my whiskey flask to do three things: be discreet, provide me with enough liquid courage to get through the day, and shield my heart from an assassin's bullet like on TV. (I have a lot of enemies, you know.) But if you spend $900 on a flask, what guarantee do you have that it's tough and ready for battle? Make sure it's supercar tested, that's how.
Read MoreThe car industry is set up to reserve its best features for its top-level cars, mostly because they want you to pay more for better options (and because those options are more expensive). Here are the features Jalopnik readers think should filter down to more mainstream models.
Read MoreYes, you can own your very own Ferrari Formula One test car right now for the low, low price of $24,999! There's only small catch: It's one half the size of a normal F1 car. Get it? "Small catch?" God, I'm good at what I do.
Read MoreThe original Land Rover had a 4-speed gearbox from the Rover P3. The upcoming Land Rovers will have a 9-speed automatic they developed together with ZF. It's clever and all, but I'm just wondering where will it end?
Read MoreMore power and less weight is always the best combination when a new model debuts, am I right?
Read MoreAny video where John Davis voluntarily wears a top hat and a monocle is all right with me.
Read MoreAs kids, we basically try and get ourselves hurt on any wheeled device we can get our hands on. Tricycles, skateboards, BMW bikes – it’s going down.
Read MorePricing for the 2014 Ford Fiesta just went live. Yes, that includes the Fiesta ST. The Fiat 500 Abarth has some competition.
Read MoreAs usual, the biggest take-away from the Oscars this year was America's continued love affair with mustard. We've got the Yellow Fever bad, and the Grey Poupon commercial that aired during the Oscars just confirmed that with its huge popularity. That Grey Poupon commercial was, of course, based on a 1988 original, and like that original ad, featured a pair of wealthy, mustard-fetishist gentlemen in matching Rolls-Royces. Only this time they went out of their way to make them look sort of less l
Read MoreMan, I feel for this kid. Somewhere in China, it was the first day of school, and our hapless unnamed student is happily riding his bike, his mind presumably full of hope for the coming year, and likely not at all worried about people all over the world reading about the bicycle up his ass. That was his first mistake.
Read MoreMost of my “How To Drive Fast” column is, unsurprisingly, about how to drive fast. As well as posing techniques, some of my pieces offer a glimpse into the inner-workings of motorsport, while others are just plain ridiculous. Siphoning through the bunch, you’ll notice I haven’t much talked about safety. So let’s start now, mixed with a dollop of speed for good measure. Here is why braking with your left foot will make you faster on the racetrack and, more importantly, safer on the road.
Read MoreThis is Kalle Rovanperä. His dad lets him get behind the wheel of rally cars and fling himself through the forest at speeds you wouldn’t dare. Child endangerment? More like awesome parenting.
Read MoreLast week we saw Will.I.Am's custom 1958 VW Beetle that supposedly cost $900,000 to build over the course of four years. Why does he do it? To "teach kids science." Yes, science.
Read MoreWhy am I pointing the wrong way on a freeway, in the middle of Snowstorm Nemo, in a car with no heat, no defroster, no snow tires, and no four-wheel drive? Why am I laughing? Because sometimes the worst drives are the best.
Read MoreAutomakers save up their best technology for their most expensive luxury models. This is horse crap. Us regular car buyers should not be deprived of the best car companies have to offer.
Read MoreThere are right ways to do things and wrong ways to do things. Here is the very wrong way to pull a boat out of the water.
Read MoreDon't you hate shoveling your car our of a five-foot-tall bank of snow after the plow man comes down the street? Well, this particular plowman thinks it's funny, real fackin' funny. But posting a YouTube video of his F-bomb-rich rant on how great he thinks burying people's cars and driveways got Mark Hussey fired. Justice has been served to this huge Masshole.
Read MoreLet’s start off with three little words: mid engine pickup. If that piques your curiosity then perhaps seeing today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Blue Previa will totally blow your mind. That is of course if its price doesn't just blow it.
Read MoreThe McLaren P1 will have its official debut next week at the Geneva Motor Show, but since we know almost everything about it already, there is no point in hiding anymore. McLaren came to the same conclusion, so here it is, in all its yellow, Ferrari-beating beauty. I love that roof. We also have some news about the performance...
Read MoreWe all know that Italians have a knack for crafting sleek, beautiful automobiles. Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini — if you're the type for such a thing — all produce some of the most lustworthy machines known to man. But did you know that Italians build pretty drones, too?
Read MoreChinese carmaker Chery, perhaps best known for their Matiz-aping QQ minicar, has decided to cut the middleman from the process of designing cars that look like existing cars and went ahead and hired a designer from a company well-known for design, Porsche.
Read MoreIt takes a very special breed of machines to succeed on a racetrack after satisfying the public as a road car. I'm not talking about silhouette car nonsense here, but factory cars that can be turned to eleven thanks to their brilliant engineering. You know, like the McLaren F1 and all the others of that era.
Read MoreOver the last few weeks, Tesla has waged an interesting PR war after a New York Times test drive ended with a Model S on a flatbed. Now, days after an offer to bury the hatchet with the Times, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that review cost his company $100 million. That hatchet must not have been buried very deep.
Read MoreNormally, seeing a video'd junkyard crammed full of hulks of vintage Citroëns and Fiat 600s makes me want to hop on a plane and save each and every one of them like some soft-hearted kook at the animal shelter. That's generally not possible, but what these folks over at Lola Madrid are doing with these basket-case cars is actually pretty cool: they're turning them into bicycles.
Read MoreThe Daytona 500 is NASCAR's Super Bowl and one of the most watched motorsports events of the year. And thanks to a combination of Saturday's huge crash and Danicamania, Sunday's race was the most watched Daytona 500 in seven years.
Read MoreA lightweight, compact Ford truck? That's a big maybe. When our own Jason Torchinsky chatted with Ford's J Mays at the Detroit Auto Show last month, Mays pretty much told him not noway, not nohow. But word around the campfire is that Ford may be considering something more practical than the monstrous pickups which are currently the only option American truck buyers have.
Read MoreIf you’re into numerology then you might find it interesting that the E34 was the last M5 to carry a 6 cylinder engine. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1991 has had its S38 replaced, and we’re going to see if its most important number - its price - makes this Five the one for you.
Read MoreA day after Saturday's horrific crash at the Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300, seven people remain hospitalized in stable condition, according to medical officials in Florida.
Read MoreThere are so many puns I could make right now. But in all seriousness, a Brit by the name of Martin Bacon has made a Ford P100 pick-up (a Ford Sierra with a truck bed, for those who don’t know) the Guinness World Record holder for fastest coffee-powered vehicle.
Read MoreIn this year’s State of the Union, President Obama touted the fuel efficiency of cars as a way to promote the advance of American energy and an indication the country is on its way to reducing reliance on foreign resources to power our main mode of transportation. It’s no secret the White House has led a crusade to make cars more fuel efficient, no matter the cost to the car enthusiast or common sense.
Read MoreRemember when the thought of kids running away from home meant they would take some comic books, a Game Boy and a bunch of candy in a knapsack and didn’t make it much more than to the end of the block? Did that ever happen outside of crap sitcoms?
Read MoreClaiming copyright infringement, NASCAR officials attempted to pull this race fan's recording of yesterday's DRIVE4COPD 300 crash off YouTube. They were successful, but not for long.
Read MoreYesterday's opening NASCAR Nationwide Cup race at the Daytona International Speedway ended with one of the most terrible crashes in recent motorsports history when debris from one of the race cars flew into the stands and injured dozens of fans. Here's everything we know as of this morning.
Read MoreToday is the Nationwide Series' run at Daytona, the Drive4COPD 300. It's a pack racing affair. And like any pack race, there are big crashes. Including one on the final lap that put an engine nearly in the grandstand.
Read MoreNo doubt you've heard of NISMO, Nissan's subsidiary responsible for going racing and putting garish bodykits on 370Zs. Nissan says some big changes are on the horizon for NISMO that will be made public on Monday. What could it be?
Read MoreOne thing I love about the gearhead community is its diversity. Car guys and gals come in all shapes and sizes, as do the cars they drive. You've got the import faithful, the muscle car folks, the donk people, the weekend racers, and everything in between. It's a great place to be.
Read MoreAfter we exclusively revealed shots of the new Jeep Cherokee rolling off the assembly line, Chrysler released the official shots of the vehicle a few hours later and ahead of schedule. The reaction to the car — particularly its nose and headlights — hasn't been as positive as the Mopar folks probably wanted. But the curious thing is that Chrysler seemed to expect this.
Read MoreLee Iacocca spent much of the 1980s bitching about import cars on TV and imploring that his K-cars were better than anything that came from Germany or Japan, let alone Ford or General Motors. "If you can find a better car, buy it," he told people. Sometimes they did.
Read MoreSnooki, the short woman with a penchant for "guido juiceheads" from the popular television program Jersey Shore, used the money from her ironic fame to buy and uglify a Cadillac Escalade. Now she's selling it. Get excited?
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the most legendary race course in the United States of America. And since 1945, it has been owned by the Hulman-George family. If rumors are to be believed, that could soon be coming to an end.
Read MoreThere seems to be an unavoidable connection between being a producer of cars and being a producer of atrocities. It's not that suddenly being around cars sends you on a muderous rampage, it just seems that if you your country has gotten to the point in its development where it can produce automobiles, it's also probably dabbled in colonialism, genocide, war, and persecution. So, if your primary goal in buying a car was to only buy from a company/country as free from atrocities against their fell
Read MoreFor the second time on my trip to India, I find myself entering a building and having a chain of flowers draped over my neck as a woman paints a mark on my forehead, and then showers me in flower petals. I never really know what to do in these situations, afraid that as soon as I open my mouth they'll realize the grave error in judgement that was made by treating me with such lavish respect. Plus, I've never had this happen to me at a car dealership.
Read MoreEvery space mission is exceedingly ambitious, but Jalopnik readers know ten that stand above the rest, even if they never got off the ground.
Read MoreRemember last year when we told you about the Texas State Trooper who shot at a truck full of illegal immigrants from a helicopter, killing two people inside? Yeah, they're not allowed to do that anymore.
Read MoreTwo no-thrills eco hatchbacks for the European market. Which one would you take?
Read MoreHow do you sell a kit car based off of a VW Beetle with a Corvair engine back in 1969? Get a pretty blonde model and make one hilariously out-of-touch brochure.
Read MoreThat may seem like a funny headline, but this story is extremely unfortunate. A jury in Dallas this week ordered a strip club to pay a woman's family $10.5 million after the club over-served one of their patrons, a man who then ran her over with his lifted truck.
Read MoreWe have detailed very acutely how much we want cars like the Audi RS4 Avant and the VW Golf GTD to come to America. But why? Can't we make these cars here in America?
Read MoreThe other day the Atlantic ran a photo piece about the remarkable DIY weaponry of the Syrian rebels, and, as always, it was impressive. There's a lot of hard work and ingenuity going into these improvised weapons. Of course, one of the most interesting was the Sham 2 armored car/light tank vehicle that we've covered here before.
Read MoreBad news for our friends in Canada. The new Chevrolet SS — the sedan that looks like a car you rent at the airport when Hertz or whoever didn't have the one you reserved but packs a 415-horsepower V8 so it's okay — will not be headed north.
Read MoreIt's been more than ten years since Dr. Ferdinand Piëch started playing around with the idea of a car that asks for only 1-liter of fuel in exchange for 62 miles of travel. A decade on, the XL1 is production ready. Here is how it works.
Read More"Hello and welcome to MotorWeek, we're glad to have you with us!" Host John Davis has opened every episode of MotorWeek with that line since the show started in 1981. Now in its 32nd year, MotorWeek is a show that every single car enthusiast has watched at least one time. Now, Mr. Davis has graciously made his time available to answer all your questions about television's original automotive magazine. Consider this MotorWeek Theater Live.
Read MoreI never tire of Eastern Europe's truck trials, because I get to see people drive eight-wheel drive Tatra trucks fit for World War III drive down cliffs into piles of mud and make farting noises.
Read MoreThe 1997 C5 Corvette was the first redesign of a Corvette since 1984. That means designers had two options: They could be conservative or they could be radical. They erred more towards the conservative route. But there was one radical design in the mix that got the boot.
Read MoreDuring my cross-country interstate expedition last month, I was pretty excited to fire up an old CB radio I'd found amongst a pile of my things before leaving. Finally, I'd be able to make my wildest Smokey and the Bandit/Dukes of Hazzard radio banter fantasies come alive.
Read MoreThe saddest thing you can do to yourself is wonder "what might have been." If you're a Saab fan, get your tissue box ready, as we're about to show you the 9-3 that never happened.
Read MoreCrashes almost every lap. A car flipped over and on fire. Cussing on live TV. The best accents in the world. All this and more from the modified stock car race on Tuesday night, the best/worst TV I’ve seen in a long time.
Read MoreWould you pay $4,500 to pass your driving exam? It sounds ludicrous, but more than 100 people in London were willing to fork that over to bribe a driving instructor for a license, according to the BBC. That instructor was arrested earlier today by police, who are investigating a "cash-for-pass" driver's license scam.
Read MoreToday we heard an American tractor tire CEO say that French factory workers only do 3 hours of labor a day. An intern at a French car plant piped up for a rebuttal.
Read MoreWhen is a highway not a highway? I don't have anything clever to follow that up but this highway is broken yo.
Read MoreYou know that one movie? The one that had a car in it? Reddit does.
Read MoreTesla just released their financial statement from the fourth quarter of 2012, and the news is mostly good, a little bad, and all open to interpretation. Isn't everything with Tesla, though?
Read MoreThe French! They're so lazy. They don't want to work, they just want to lay around in their berets eating cheese, drinking wine, making love and losing wars. Not like us hard work-loving Americans. At least, that's the perception that tire company CEO Maurice Taylor has of the French. And he's not afraid to say it.
Read MoreIt's the end of the line for the Tupolev Tu-154. This triple-engined medium-range narrow-body airliner was the workhorse of the Soviet Union, but managed to stay afloat long after the fall of communism. While noise regulations banned it from Western Europe quite a while ago, experts say that Tu-154s will serve the public until for at least another three years.
Read MoreOne man has blown up my twitter in the past 48 hours. That man is fellow Jalopnian, James F Johnson Jr. (@dmidwestredneck), and he desperately wants me to race in Robby Gordon’s new Stadium Super Truck Series. And, if you look at the kickass video below, it isn’t hard to see why.
Read MoreThe war of words between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the New York Times dominated the world of automotive news last week after one of the paper's reporters failed at his D.C. to Boston drive in a Model S and Musk responded by calling the story "fake." Now Musk says he wants to "bury the hatchet and move on." Or, in other words, he wants this to all go away.
Read MoreEarlier today we saw a car that was supposedly Will.I.Am's brand-new, totally custom ride. We have confirmed that this is Will's car, but it hasn't been "built from scratch." The car is actually a 1958 VW Beetle that has been modified beyond recognition. The build started in 2009. It still isn't really done. And that's because Will.I.Am took it to two shops, had absolutely no idea what he wanted, and no clue about what it takes to build a car.
Read MoreIn America, no form of personal expression is greater than the vanity license plate. Vanity plates give ordinary people the platform they need to show the world just how clever or creepy or kind of dickish they really are.
Read MoreJust because the New York Police Department isn't using Scion FR-Ses doesn't mean the criminals can't use them. Everyone's favorite new Japanese rear-wheel-drive sportscar was apparently used as the getaway car in the armed robbery of a New Jersey Wawa on Monday night.
Read MoreToday we got Jason’s Guide to Driving In India Without Dying. It reminded us of close calls we’ve head ourselves.
Read MoreYesterday's Burger King hack made social media experts everywhere come out with tips on how to avoid a hack. Earlier today, Jeep's social media team posted tips on how to avoid a hack. They were hacked 15 minutes later.
Read MoreI was reading the preview of Evo's review of the Aston Martin V12 Zagato, and looking at the pictures, I finally realized that the thing I like the most about it is that ridiculous rear wing. That piece of carbon fibre looks so out of place on the butt of a car that costs three times as much as a normal V12 Vantage that the idea to put it there sells the whole package for me. A bit of immaturity makes the V12 Zagato special.
Read MoreThe whole Volvo lineup got upgraded for this year. Let's see what's new from the Skandinavians in terms of lasers and wood!
Read MoreYesterday Burger King turned into McDonalds. Today, Jeep has become Cadillac. It's a bad week to be on Twitter.
Read MoreSometimes car buyers don’t know what’s good for them and great cars go unsold.
Read MoreEver wondered why your car feels so cheap? It’s because your carmaker cut costs. Jalopnik Readers know the ten worst cases of auto companies skimping where it counts.
Read MoreRight now there are slim pickings in the four-door Bentley department. That's about to change. Meet the stunning 2014 Bentley Flying Spur.
Read MoreBy all accounts, A Good Day To Die Hard is a terrible movie. But the stunts, well, there were a lot of them and they cost a fortune. Director John Moore decided that when it came to smashing expensive vehicles, it was time to go big or go home.
Read MoreThe #Kony2012 hastag was huge last year thanks to a viral campaign to bring notorious African warlord and child army leader Joseph Kony to justice. But if you search that on Twitter now, you just get a bunch of joke tweets. And a promoted post from the Lincoln Motor Company. Wait, what?
Read MoreNow that marijuana is legal for recreational use in Colorado and Washington State, authorities need some way of deciding when a person is too stoned to drive. Law enforcement has set legal limits, but are they too low? Washington TV station KIRO got a bunch of people high and set them loose on a police road course, but they actually didn't do all that bad.
Read MoreFrank M. Rinderknecht's creative powerhouse joined forces with infotainment company Harman to create the perfect urban traffic system. The Micro Max electric vehicle is part of the revolutionary idea, using Cloud technology with real time navigation functions while balancing between the functions of personal and public transportation. It also looks like something the Japanese would do.
Read MoreLast week, a Polish truck driver was stopped in Germany for driving an Iveco flatbed loaded up with another flatbed truck carrying a VW-MAN truck carrying a Mercedes.
Read MoreIf you ever find yourself lost behind enemy lines with no hope of getting past the bad guys, over the lines, and to the safety of your own people, you're pretty well stuffed. For military pilots, this scenario is a distinct possibility. That's why the Air Force has crews of pararescue jumpers to fly into all sorts of gnarly shit to save peoples' lives.
Read MoreIt's pretty easy to remove the tailgate from most trucks. All you have to do is pull the handle, flip the gate halfway down, and pull it off the tabs. Theives have picked up on that, and according to statistics from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, tailgate theft is up 18 percent this year. Since 2006, 1,345 tailgate thefts have been reported.
Read MoreAutomakers love saving money any way they can. Some of these ventures we rarely notice (sharing A/C units across brands) while others, like Chrysler switches in Maseratis, are more obvious. What's the worst automaker cost-cutting measure?
Read MoreEvery so often a carmaker comes around, makes up a supercar with a zillion horsepower that runs on baby tears and we all try not to laugh. Jalopnik readers know ten manufacturer claims that outdid all the others.
Read MoreAmerica is probably the best place on Earth for long road trips. Fuel is cheap, food is plentiful, and the roads — they're amazing. But the U.S. of A. wasn't always a land of long, smooth stretches of tarmac you could sail across at 80 mph in almost any weather. A century ago, driving cross-country in America wasn't much better than rallying a Conestoga wagon train.
Read MoreYou might know RUF for the 1987 CTR Yellowbird, a special Porsche 911 that could do 211 mph. Or perhaps you've seen something from the modern era like the 750 horsepower CTR3, a car that could eat a Carrera GT for breakfast. Now Lotus F1 called Lotus F1's boss called, and he wants their expertise.
Read MorePart of the reason BMWs are so venerated is due to their amazing engines. That’s why it’s so puzzling that so many people - like the present owner of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe E36 - decide to dump them for Chevy V8s. Another puzzle for you is whether this LS1-powered coupe is worth dumping nearly thirteen large to purchase.
Read MoreYou know if you park your car wrong in some countries, there might be an ax in your back window. If you park your car in Boston after saving a spot, you might have your tires smashed in.
Read MoreI have an unexplained soft spot for American Motors. Perhaps it’s the underdog thing or just that they dared to be different for different’s sake. Maybe it's because they teamed up with Renault in their later years to make things that looked good on paper yet were terrible in reality. Whatever the case, if I had the means, there's a Rambler for sale that gets me very interested. As I’m pretty sure everyone is well aware by now, George Romney, Mitt’s father, was a former American Motors head befo
Read MoreKleber Atalla of São Paulo made a name for himself with the dangerous motorcycle escapades he posted to YouTube. Now the Brazilian is facing a charge of manslaughter following a car crash where police say he killed a pedestrian with his Fiat.
Read MoreWe were rightfully skeptical towards Chevrolet ditching the meaningless “Chevy Runs Deep” tagline for the sounds-like-it-came-from-Saab “Find New Roads.” What exactly does "Find New Roads" mean for such a mainstream icon like the bow tie? It took me a while it come to terms with it, but I actually think it’s one of the best whole lineup ads in a while – except for that damn robot dog.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreAside from a few random sketches, we don't yet know what the neo-Enzo Ferrari F150 will look like yet. But artist Josiah LaColla has cooked up some renderings of his own, and they're pretty hot.
Read More“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.” That ages-old slur against the news media was used quite a bit this week after the New York Times’ failed drive of the Tesla Model S, and Tesla’s subsequent response to it. People have a right to be skeptical of the Times’ drive: after all, media coverage of scandals in the auto industry has a history of being ill-advised, misinformed, and at worst, manufactured.
Read MoreCNNMoney's Peter Valdes-Dapena says he learned a lot of things on his road trip from D.C. to Boston in a Tesla Model S, including the massive amount of planning that goes into a long road trip in an electric vehicle. Oh, and he also encountered the same problems with his Model S we told you were plaguing owners — and that Elon Musk told us had been fixed.
Read MoreIf the Corvette is supposed to be a babe magnet, then this may be the first babe to be ‘magnetized' by the new Stingray.
Read MoreGenerally, the American motoring press doesn't think much about India. Sure, when there's big news like a $2500 new car or someone remembering that, holy crap, they still build the Ambassador, we'll write about it, but for the most part we've done a pretty good job ignoring the sixth largest car market in the world. Let's change that.
Read MoreWhen it comes to styling, retro is a difficult one to master. But no matter how many terrible examples we see thanks to the numerous tuners out there without any taste, we still desire the vintage feeling that comes with modern technology wrapped in a classically shaped body or interior.
Read MoreHe doesn't just talk about the environment, he actually did something about it. He's so smart it's almost frightening. His life is one of accomplishment and success, although not without a few setbacks. He loves the media when they lavish him with accolades, which they often do, but he sees a conspiracy when they utter anything else but abject praise. Am I describing Richard Nixon or Elon Musk?
Read MoreAutomakers are always talking about what they're going to do next to wow us. What are the claims that car makers have made that haven't come to fruition.
Read MoreVolvo and BMW are traditional players in the luxury marine business, but when it comes to Miami Vice-style speedboats, you just can't beat Mercedes-Benz. Now they've gone electric.
Read MoreIn about 13 hours, journalists from CNNMoney did what a New York Times reporter couldn't (or didn't, depending on your perspective): they made the drive from D.C. to Boston in a Tesla Model S. And perhaps more importantly, they say Tesla's network of Supercharger stations along the East Coast passed the test.
Read MoreA new Chinese brand called Qoros will bring three cars to Geneva: A production ready sedan, a wagon concept, and a hybrid crossover hatchback concept aimed at European customers. While we have already discussed how some of the styling bits look rather similar, I believe it's worth it to take a second look at China's next attempt to break into the tough European market.
Read MoreOne of the big advantages of living in a country where everyone seems to have a camera pointing out the window of their car is that when something truly bonkers happens, you have lots of footage for the world to watch and say "holy shit" at.
Read MoreJohn M. Broder, the New York Times reporter involved in now-infamous failed Tesla Model S drive up the East Coast, has responded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's claim that he greased the test and lied in his story. Broder's explanation? He did what he was told to do by Tesla employees — they just gave him bad advice.
Read MoreRick Ibsen played a big part in a New York Times reporter's ill-fated Tesla Model S drive up the East Coast. He was the one who came to the car's rescue when it apparently ran out of power and stopped working on a Connecticut exit ramp. But until I spoke with him a few minutes ago, he was unaware that this had exploded into a huge controversy.
Read MoreThe Ram 1500 will be first half-ton pickup of modern times to get a diesel engine. Interesting.
Read MoreAs I write this, journalists from CNNMoney are attempting to do what the New York Times failed to do: drive from Washington to Boston in a Tesla Model S, making use of the company's innovative Supercharger stations along the way. Will they pull it off?
Read MoreFor as long as I can remember, racing games have either been a simulation or an arcade experience, but rarely have the two intermingled. But the arrival of games like Grid and Forza Horizon have merged those two categories into an interesting grey area. And now we have Grid 2, which will be making that grey area even greyer.
Read MoreAmong Elon Musk's many rebuttals to the New York Times' failed drive of the Tesla Model S is that the car never fully ran out of battery power, even when it was being towed away on a flatbed truck. Not true, says the towing company.
Read MoreA letter from Jalopnik readers to Lindsay Lohan and all other terrible celebrity drivers: don’t buy these ten cars.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what a race would look like through the eyes of someone high on a hallucinogenic? No? Well, here's a possible answer to a question you've never asked.
Read MoreFrenchman Frank Lecerf set off for the supermarket Saturday morning, like he does every Saturday morning. An hour later his car was in a ditch in Belgium after he led police on a wild 125 MPH chase. The reason? He claims his car accelerated on its own.
Read MoreAs promised, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk has fired back against New York Times reporter John M. Broder's ill-fated test drive of the Model S, and he has done so with data logs from the car. And these logs appear, at least, to contradict some of what Broder wrote in his story.
Read MoreI remember it like yesterday. The email came through in January of last year from Katherine Legge, telling me she’d hooked up with this fabulous new sponsor, TrueCar, but I couldn’t say a word about it until, unless the team she was joining was named. So I kept my trap shut and waited until, finally, Katherine was confirmed by Dragon Racing, Jay Penske’s outfit.
Read MoreUGH. Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One World Champion, has a painfully cute dog named Roscoe.
Read MoreWe've heard for a while that the McLaren P1 is going to be rocket fast. If new rumors are to be believed, it could be even faster than we originally thought. We're talking way faster than a GT3 racer fast.
Read MoreI need to start this post with an apology. I'm sorry you're about to see this. You may want to send the kids into the other room; this might upset them.
Read MoreY'all have heard, and have now seen, that we can repub posts from your personal Kinja sites to the front page of Jalopnik. It's a good thing for everyone and we're having a lot of fun with it thus far. Here are a few tips on how to get us to notice your fine work.
Read MoreA Florida woman was driving down the turnpike to Miami last Thursday when she hit a Great Horned Owl. Though it was trapped behind the SUV's grill for a full day, the bird was not harmed.
Read MoreDrama! There’s loads of drama on tap in the electric car world between the New York Times and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk over the Times’ recent test of a Model S. Now, the reporter who wrote the damning piece has fired back against Musk’s claim that the story was “fake.”
Read MoreMy first question is whether you would not buy this, or not buy the A 45 AMG? You got my drift, since the 2014 Audi S3 Sportback is not coming to the 'States either...
Read MoreA select few celebrities are really great drivers. But then there's the other group: The terrible celebrity drivers. What cars should a noted crasher like Lindsay Lohan never own?
Read MoreFord recently made a presentation to show its product plans for the next few years. They fastidiously blacked out every single new car that's coming down the pipeline to keep prying eyes from getting a glance. But it seems like the man in charge forgot one, because this is a little picture of the brand new Ford Edge. Whoopsiedoodle!
Read MoreThe A45 AMG is what Mercedes-Benz thinks a good hot hatch should look like, and no, they still don't think the US should get any of its 360 horsepower.
Read MoreWe knew this was bound to happen sooner or later, but it doesn't make us any less sad.
Read MoreMorgan Stanley's North America autos team led by Adam Jonas is optimistic about the U.S. auto market in 2013.
Read MoreFormula One drivers are famously compact little guys and tall drivers are definitely in the minority. At six feet tall, Nico Hulkenberg is one of the taller ones. That means he has bigger feet. And those big feet seem to be too large for his new car.
Read MoreI love mountains. And not just on foot or with a pair of skis. To drive up or down (and through) them is also a fantastic adventure! Sometimes, you can't even shift above third gear, but speed is almost irrelevant on steep and curvy roads. It's all about cornering and precision there, while you also enjoy the fresh air and the remarkable panoramas. So where should you go for the drive of your life with all the horsepower at home?
Read MoreUnless you carry a flamethrower, there is no perfect way to get your car out of the snow. I managed to figure out pretty much the worst way.
Read More"The Csepel Car Factory, the MOGÜRT Export Company and the Swedish AB Volvo founded a joint venture in Hungary. The new agreement states that using Swedish-made components, the Type L-3314 Laplander all-wheel drive vehicles will be assembled at the Csepel Car Factory.
Read MoreTesla Motors' website promises that the new Model S sedan is a car "so advanced it sets the new standard for premium performance" while delivering "unprecedented range and a thrilling drive experience." But visiting the Tesla Motors Club forums gives you an idea of what the other side of Tesla ownership is like: doors and rear hatches that open on their own, regular failures of the car's massive touchscreen control panel, persistent problems with the car's trick extending door handles, and power
Read MoreThe Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 is probably the best version of the 911 to ever hit the streets, ever. So why would someone steal and strip one of all its RS-ey goodness? I hate seeing pictures that make me cry. Especially in the morning.
Read MoreUsing exactly as much bare carbon fibre as nessessary, the McLaren P1's interior is just as about weight-saving as the rest of the car. Taking design clues from fighter jets, the P1 features a glass canopy overhead, while composites were used for the dashboard, floor, headlining, doors, rockers and the single piece centre consol, which remains non-lacquered to save further 3.3 pounds.
Read MoreThe production version of Alfa Romeo's compact mid-engined sports car will make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. And after that, it's going to America! Alfa left the States in 1995, so I guess you really have to wait 18 years before you can officially enjoy porn.
Read MorePut one F60 on a deserted set of farm roads, and you get as close as you'll ever get to a Ferrari Enzo Gymkhana video.
Read MoreDo you like the occasional adult beverage? Do you like nerding out over cars while drinking that adult beverage? You do?! Then why not meet up with us, your friendly Jalopnik writers tomorrow evening so we can drink and talk cars together?
Read MoreThe New York Times recently tried to drive a Tesla Model S from Washington, DC to near Boston, MA using only Tesla's new Supercharger fast charging stations. They finished the trip on a flatbed. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has now taken to Twitter to express his displeasure. He says the story is "fake." Shots fired.
Read MoreSince Nissan debuted the Titan pickup in 2003, it hasn't really changed too much about its full-size rig. Why mess around with a good thing, right? But Nissan is ready to play catch-up, and said a redesign for the 10-year-old truck is in the works.
Read MoreAbout two years ago, we asked you which was the worst model year in automotive history for our Question Of The Day. You had many great suggestions, and while we originally went for 1980, our readers declared 1981 as the worst year ever to buy a new car. Come on, we knew all along that the winner can only come from the eighties!
Read MoreVolkswagen seems to be unstoppable. I had half on eye on the Polo WRC's progress from the start of its development, but never expected it to be able to win at only its second rally. And what a race Sweden was! With his eighth victory, Sébastien Ogier joins multiple world champion Sébastien Loeb as only the second winner of the race to come from outside of Sweden, Norway and Finland since 1950. Loeb was the first to break the Nordic countries' stranglehold in 2004.
Read MoreThe site seems different today because it is different. Not only have we entirely redesigned the way this site looks, we've changed the way it operates. Yesterday, you were a reader and a commenter. Today you can be a writer, an arbiter, an editor, and a publisher. You'll still read, but now you can also contribute.
Read MoreA woman out in Sierra Foothills, California recently dealt with the death of her husband. And while that's an unspeakably tragic event, she's using it as an opportunity to do something she's probably dreamed about for years: unload all of his Alfa Romeo project cars and parts.
Read MoreFerrari announced this morning that the F150, the hypercar that will take the Enzo's place as the top Ferrari, will debut Geneva Motor Show (as we previously reported). But the curious thing is the way they did it: on what is supposedly their official Instagram page.
Read MoreWelcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreMost of you were rightfully incredulous over the Los Angeles Police Department's shooting of two innocent women following a case of mistaken truck identity during their search for alleged killer ex-cop Christopher Dorner. How did the cops mistake the women's blue Toyota Tacoma for Dorner's gray Nissan Titan? Why did they shoot first and ask questions later? Why did they unload dozens of rounds into the truck?
Read MoreMusician, admitted domestic abuser and all-around awesome human being Chris Brown was involved in more vehicular mayhem this weekend, making headlines after he apparently crashed and totaled his Porsche while running from paparazzi.
Read MoreAfter a while, it gets hard to count all of the traffic laws that Russia's 'Black Devil' breaks in his many YouTube videos.
Read MoreWell, look at that. General Motors' Australian subsidiary Holden dropped the first photos of their new Holden Commodore tonight, just like we expected.
Read MoreAmerica is a car country. We always have been, and we probably always will be. But as much as we all love driving, we have to recognize that there are some downsides to not having a first-rate rail system like Europe or Japan.
Read MoreAny time we feature some crazily awful story out of Florida, it's typically from a newspaper or local TV news headline that contains these two words: "Florida Man." As in, "Florida man arrested again for tasering ex-wife," or "Florida man bites neighbor's thumb off." You get the idea.
Read MoreI'm worried about Australia. They continued on with gloriously huge V8-driven, rear-wheel-drive sedans and utes long after the Americans gave up the ghost. Occasionally, they would make their way over here, but never for long. It left the rest of us longing for tire-smoking Aussie cars we would never get.
Read MoreDo you happen to live in the northeastern United States? Then besides finding a good parking lot to do donuts in, today is probably not the best day to be driving. Or flying. Or trying to get anywhere.
Read MoreSince it launched in 2008, Nissan's GT Academy has repeatedly done something previously thought to be absurd and unrealistic: It has taken people who are really, really good at Gran Turismo and put them in the seats of actual race cars. Look at Spaniard Lucas Ordoñez, who successfully went from gamer to pro driver through the program.
Read MoreThere's been a lot of talk that Audi has replaced BMW for the car of choice for America's douchebags. This BMW M3 provides evidence to the contrary.
Read MoreEver wondered how to be the questionably-sane person sitting shotgun in a rally car? This won't help you, but it's hilarious.
Read MoreWe think that decommissioned police cruisers make great used cars, but could driving one be illegal? One Jalopnik reader found out from a run-in with the police.
Read MoreThe UAE is, in many ways, like the USA. It's a collection of 7 emirates (similar to our states) bound together by a federal government. Emiratis also love cars as much, or perhaps more than, the typical American.
Read MoreIf you're here reading Jalopnik, you probably enjoy the act of driving more than just about anything else. But could our days behind the wheel really be numbered?
Read MoreRemember when British comedy megastar Rowan Atkinson skirted death by crashing his McLaren F1 and lived to tell the tale? Well, he just got it fixed. He's probably very happy to get the supercar back, but I'm sure his insurance company is crying into their beers tonight.
Read MoreThe fastest car you'll ever drive is one you don't own. This is certainly true on media test drives, where automotive journalists have a tendency to indulge in a bit of vehicular mayhem.
Read MoreWe recently heard that Frank Ocean is converting his BMW to right-hand drive, like that Civic above. There is only one reason to make your car so demonstrably worse: because you're an asshole.
Read MoreThe great thing about rich people is that they buy new cars like mad and let the old ones go for pennies. Jalopnik readers know these ten most-depreciated cars of the past ten years.
Read MoreWhen we watched a belligerent man bring an entire Italian town to a halt with an Austin Powers-esque 67-point turn, it all looked too good to be true. La Repubblica now reports that it was indeed a fake.
Read MoreFinnish tabloid Seiska reports that Kimi Räikkönen is splitting from his show jumping rider wife of eight years, Jenni Dahlman-Räikkönen. Could our dreams have come true? Is Kimi finally an eligible bachelor?
Read MoreTwo women out delivering newspapers in Torrance, Calif. earlier today were shot by members of the Los Angeles Police Department after the officers apparently mistook their pickup truck for that of a murder suspect, according to KABC-TV Los Angeles.
Read MoreThis? This is no ordinary Camaro, hombre. Not by a long shot. This is a supercharged L99-powered, 400-hp ZL1-badged widebody Camaro that will soon feature prominently in a DreamWorks 3D comedy called Turbo. What's so confusing?
Read MoreSometimes, school projects can be a lot of fun, like when you're assigned to decorate a poster or blow up a car using high explosives.
Read MoreYou there! Are you a man who likes Rams, but not vans? Then you should consider buying the Ram ProMaster van, and then you'll become a man who is both for the ProMaster Ram Van and a master man. Perhaps that will change your mind.
Read MoreFollowing the GT Concept of 2011, Kia has now brought a vision of a larger premium CUV to the Chicago Auto Show. The new car was designed by the Frankfurt team, but built by Kia's American Design Center in Irvine, Califronia.
Read MoreWhy pick up a new car when you could get so much more buying used?
Read MoreAfter yesterday's leaked image, BMW has given us all the details about the new 3-Series Gran Turismo they will officially present in Geneva next month. And not only does it look better than I first thought, but also packs BMW's first active spoiler and some rather impressive luggage space.
Read MoreThis is Off Seasons 2, the sequel to pro-drifter Ryan Tuerck's seminal 2010 drift video. It is the most evocative car video I have seen since then.
Read MoreThe arrival of the Cadillac ATS has put the tried and true CTS in a bit of a tough spot. It's barely larger than the ATS, it's more expensive, and it's getting old. These are all bad things.
Read MoreHey look, it's a 2003 Hyundai Elantra hatchback! No wait, it's the new BMW 3 series GT confirmed today.
Read MoreWhile America may not have the most historic roadside attractions in the world — say, Stonehenge, for example — we do have something no one else can lay claim to: the Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo, Texas. Since 1974, the plot of land with 10 graffiti-covered Cadillacs sticking out of the ground has drawn travelers from across the country and even starred in magazine shoots and music videos.
Read MoreThe DB5 made famous by 007 is for sale. Is it cheap? No Mr. Bond, they expect you to pay $4.7 million dollars.
Read MoreWe love the Toyobaru twins. They're pretty, they're fun to drive, and they bring visceral enjoyment back to the driving experience.
Read MoreAs you may have heard, we've gotten together with our fellow car nerds at Turn10 to create a Jalopnik DLC for Forza Horizon complete with the wonderfully batshit mix of cars you'd expect from us.
Read MoreMost Italian cities have notoriously narrow roads, so trying to turn your car around on one is a foolish idea. An Italian motorist decided to U-turn his Fiat 500 in an alley lined with parked cars, instantly re-creating Austin Powers' 67-point turn scene.
Read MoreListen — I miss the Crown Victoria as much as you all do. It was a great American car with great American character, and its sheer ubiquity as a law enforcement vehicle added quite a bit to its charm. But we all really need to start coping with the fact that it's gone.
Read MoreEverything is new for 2013 at Toro Rosso. Except the drivers. And the steering wheel. That's from last year. But other than that, it's a whole new world.
Read MoreBMW is one of those companies that gets respect and guff in big, heaping piles around here. They certainly make plenty of spectacular, iconic cars, from the 2002 to E30s to the 507 to even the little Isetta. They also sometimes seem to generate a following of arrogant, parking-line-ignorers. Two sides of the big BMW coin.
Read MoreMarketing lingo in the car world is absurd. Jalopnik readers know ten instances where even the simple act of naming an option on a car got out of hand.
Read MoreThe innovative and Batmobile-esque Nissan DeltaWing racecar took the endurance racing world by storm last year, even though it didn't finish the 24 Hours of LeMans after getting punted off the road by a Toyota. It had a much more impressive showing at Petit Le Mans in October, where it finished fifth.
Read MoreThe Ferrari FXX featured in the trailer for Fast And Furious 6 is not a Ferrari FXX. Oh no.
Read MoreThe European market has many more small, fuel-efficient car models than we get in America, but even European versions of international cars like the Jetta are rated at higher MPG numbers. We can explain why.
Read MoreJorge Sanchez appeared to know exactly where he was headed when he walked into a Burbank, Calif. Costco last week: straight to the oil aisle. When he showed up at the register a few pounds heavier, Costco employees knew something was up.
Read MoreYou're bound to run into problems on any long trip, whether you travel by boat, train, plane or car. Something, somewhere will go wrong, and the likelihood of this happening only gets greater the longer you're away from home.
Read MoreThe fine folks in Coventry were kind enough to give us a glimpse of their pre-production V6 and V8 Jaguar F-Type roadsters hooning through the wet and curvy roads of Wales. While you drool over the photos of the E-Type's spiritual successor, here is a quick reminder of what we already know about the newest Jaaaaaag.
Read MoreDid you know they also make fancy bikes and watches in Detroit? Check this out Shinola's magic over at Designboom!
Read MoreIn a move to boost overall fleet fuel economy numbers, more carmakers have turned toward small displacement turbo engines as a solution. But Consumer Reports just called foul on manufacturer claims that their turbos are more efficient and more powerful than larger displacement, normally-aspirated engines.
Read MoreEvery year there are F1 cars that don't score any points and always qualify at the back of the grid. It's a fact of life. For the past few years those cars have been run by HRT, Marussia, and Caterham.
Read MoreThe new Range Rover's top trim level is "Autobiography." It's a nice interior but the trim package's name makes me want to hurl.
Read MoreThis idea is so perverse I can't help but love it. It's a picture of what appears to be a nicely-polished Honda 1.8L B18 engine nestled in the engine bay of a Z06 Corvette. Now, to Corvette purists, this is the equivalent of getting a heart transplant from a mole — an abomination that also is just too feeble to actually even work.
Read MoreLast Sunday was the 132th birthday of József Galamb, the Hungarian engineer who became the chief designer of the first mass produced car in the world, the Ford Model T. My mom sent a message that I should write about him, but I told her I was sure everybody knew his story already.
Read MoreToday we saw Ben Wojdyla almost get his face turned into mincemeat by a rogue spring, shooting out of a car with no warning. What's the closest call you've had with a car in a garage?
Read MoreRemember going to school as a little kid? Specifically, think about that moment in the morning, waiting outside in the cold, barely awake and wondering if you actually did your math homework or just dreamed you did. Now picture seeing the school bus come lumbering down the street to collect you. What's the feeling in your gut?
Read MoreThis is Red Bull Racing's launch video for their 2013 F1 car. It shows an obsession with high-tech manufacturing on par with Metropolis.
Read MoreIt turns out that supersonic man Felix Baumgartner was even more supersonic than we previously thought. He actually reached 843.6 miles per hour (1,357.6 km/h), which is 1.25 the speed of sound. His heart rate was extremely high at the exact time of the jump—understandably!
Read MoreYesterday was the Super Bowl. A ball was thrown up and down a field a number of times. A bunch of men fell down after being hit by other men. The lights went out. Beyonce gyrated on a stage in a slightly self-indulgent half time show. Both teams were coached by men with the same last name. One lucky man got a 2014 Corvette just for playing football very well.
Read MoreOur pals over at Car and Driver have their equivalent of Parking Lot Mechanic, called Saturday Mechanic, and this is a clip from one of their recent episodes starring former Jalopnik writer Ben Wojdyla almost being murdered by a car that doesn't have a J-gate.
Read MoreAs far as I can tell, the Sahara Force India team is only in F1 to show the world what a superpower India has become. Sure, all Formula 1 cars are full of sponsor logos and product placement, but beyond a few foreign (mostly British) supporters, the main aspects of the car remain very Indian. And this Asian country wants to score just as much as ever.
Read MoreThe Fast and the Furious films are the ultimate guilty pleasure for any moviegoer that doesn't have to bring a tissue to their theater. They aren't realistic and they aren't ever that good, but they're a dependably fun watch with tons of action, great cars, and terrible cars that are great within the context of the ever-expanding universe of the film.
Read MoreJumping your car seems like an awesome idea at the time, but it can go easily, hilariously wrong.
Read MoreAmerica needs a new Transportation Secretary now that Ray LaHood is gone. Jalopnik readers have selected ten candidates perfect for the job.
Read MoreWe all know that crazy shit happens in Florida. The Sunshine State has a history of chicanery that goes back to the Miami Vice days. After all, where else but in South Florida does a bale of cocaine fall out of the sky? Nowhere.
Read MoreThe Ford Raptor is a favorite around here. It looks like an R/C truck and has similar capabilities. It's also one of the best performance bargains out there…. but it has its limits.
Read MoreForget the Ravens and the 49ers. Chrysler just won the Super Bowl with a commercial for its truck brand that was memorable, unique, and inspiring.
Read MoreWhen we showed you this year's Audi "Bravery" Super Bowl Ad there was no reference to the nerdy lead character assaulting the prom queen, because it's clear to me from viewing the ad a few times that the prom queen doesn't react in a way that makes me think the creator of the commercial wants us to view her as being attacked.
Read MoreIn just a short while, millions of Americans will gather to watch the Super Bowl, a large and popular sporting event that does not involve racing or motorsports in any way, shape or form. Bummer.
Read MoreThere have been numerous odd trucks and truck-based SUVs in the last couple decades, many in the pursuit of power or "sportiness." Some of the obvious ones are the various editions of SRT, SVT and SS badges attached and they've all been insane ideas with varying results. A couple of these experiments came into mind and, sure enough, they're still for sale in various parts of the county. So let's ponder.
Read MoreI mean, you could buy it if you had a couple million dollars lying around.
Read MoreLooks like the black London taxi cab won't be disappearing from roads thanks to the saviors at Geely. You may remember Geely from such takeovers as Volvo, where they're redefining the famed Swedish brand as a company that makes big luxury sedans for China, sexy hatchbacks and wagons for Europe and big crossovers for Americans.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreChalk this one up under crazy accidents brought on by stupid ideas. A coach bus full of high school students traveling from Harvard to Pennsylvania Saturday night had its roof torn off as its driver tried to duck a low bridge in Boston, injuring 34 people, some severely.
Read MoreEver blow an engine during hard driving? Screw up a transmission you were rebuilding? Buy some godawful lemon-y piece of garbage you regret even today? Drive an E30 BMW into a pole that was right in front of you?
Read MoreNext time you find yourself in traffic court, here's an excuse you can try: I can't be prosecuted because traffic laws don't apply to me!
Read More"There's nothing like driving to avoid jail." That timeless bit of wisdom from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby proved to be true in real life this week after ex-NASCAR driver Tyler Walker was arrested after he led police on a high-speed chase through three states.
Read MoreYou know this weekend's Classic Ad Watch had to come from a Super Bowl, right? It's probably in the Constitution somewhere, or the Bible. Maybe both.
Read MoreThe 2013 sports car racing season got its start on the banking, looping through Daytona and its mist for 24 hours. Here is your ridiculously stunning über gallery.
Read MoreA person who parked their Mercedes-Benz in a lot at Edinburgh's Waverly railway station is going to have a very exciting scene when they return for their car. Because their car is now the solitary inhabitant of Parking Space Isle.
Read MoreWithin the factory walls, its codename was K-9, after Dr. Who's famous robotic dog. But since Alan Curtis, the Managing Director of Aston Martin Lagonda liked to spend his free time by flying a Scottish Aviation Bulldog, by the time the car was first shown to the public on March 27, 1980 at the Bell Hotel at Aston Clinton, it got the Bulldog name tag as well.
Read MoreTwo thieves in Orlando, Florida tried and failed to steal a yellow Corvette because they couldn't drive stick.
Read MoreI REACHED DOWN the pant cuff with the eraser end of my pencil and poked it. Frozen solid. But definitely human.
Read MoreWhen you hear General Motors, you probably think of Chevrolets, Cadillacs and GMCs. Or bailouts and the death of Pontiac in case you're not a fan of the company.
Read MoreA Dodge Dart packed with Mopar goodies will be displayed at the Chicago Auto Show, making it the fourth special-edition Mopar-badged vehicle since Fiat's takeover in 2009. This angry beast is going to be as rare as another product we can thanks Sergio Marchionne for, the Ferrari "F150," as only 500 numbered units will be built in Belvidere.
Read MoreNew developments have emerged in the saga of the tuner cars that shut down highway traffic in Oakland last weekend so they could do some smoky donuts.
Read MoreThe job of the U.S. Transportation Secretary is to develop policies related to America's transportation needs and to oversee nearly a dozen federal agencies, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration.
Read MoreThe Super Bowl is upon us and in between the parts where large men give each other concussions we get something to enjoy: car ads. Jalopnik readers have put together the ten best from over the years.
Read MoreToyota will bring a convertible Scion FR-S concept to the Geneva Motor Show in March. A Miata with rear seats? We're listening Toyota.
Read MoreHow many car models can you think of that have been sold under more than one brand name? Not too many are given that kind of second chance, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Fiat/Bertone X1/9 is just such a car. Your job, is to decide if its price makes this two seater worth chancing.
Read MoreToday we have a very special Nice Price or Crack Pipe. Not only are we going to determine if this Fiero-based GT40 is worth its asking price, we’re going decide if it’s worth saving at all.
Read MoreHistorically, Creole meant native born rather than foreign born. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caddy-van is claimed to honor its builders heritage, but will its price have you going native?
Read MoreBefore they went belly up, Oldsmobile attempted to cast off the stigma of their previous products with the ad tagline Not your Father’s Oldsmobile. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds may actually BE your old man’s Cutlass, but does its price make you say oh man?
Read MoreFrom the Greek, nomades, Nomads are pastoral tribes, people who roam the land rather than settling in one permanent home. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Nomad homage Malibu is coincidentally looking for a new home. Will its price however, have you saying, move along, move along?
Read MoreThe term Rat, when applied to a car, implies a certain level of, how shall we say, rattiness that itself implies a focus on function over form. Despite its seller giving it that appellation, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick Roadmaster is more a whale than a rat, but would paying its price make you batty?
Read MoreDon Panoz made his fortune on the transdermal nicotine patch. He and his son, Dan, spent some of that fortune starting a racing league and creating cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Esperante. Right now, we’re going to find out if you think this two-seat soft top would cost too much of your fortune.
Read MoreIn Hollywood lingo, the Martini Shot is the final set up of the day after which you get your drunk on. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1982 Accord might be staring in a European flick because it’s painted in Martini livery, but will its price have you yelling action!?
Read MoreIf you’re totally OCD over titles then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru 360 should satisfy as it’s about the mini-est minivan there is. The question though, is whether the price on this custom one-box is contrastingly too maxi.
Read MoreThe avian Bluebird is one of the few members of the thrush family to call America home. In contrast, Nissan left the Bluebird nameplate at home, calling its mid-sizer the 4, 5, 6, and eventually 810 when sending it stateside. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 610 is more rush than thrush, but will its price make you blush?
Read MoreIn Kurosawa’s brilliant Seven Samurai, a village is saved from invaders by a septet of protectors. In case you need saving from this past weekend’s epic Nor’easter, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 8-tired Suzuki Samurai goes Kurosawa one better, but would its price take too much of your savings?
Read MoreAt over 8-feet in circumference, Mikel Ruffinelli's hips hold the official record of being the world's widest. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom BMW might just give her a run for her money, unless of course you think its price should be given a wide berth.
Read MoreUnimog derives its name from UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät, or universal motor equipment. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 404S flatbed could haul lots of motors and equipment, but will its price make it UNIversally loved?
Read MoreEgypt's Cleopatra famously did herself in by asp bite. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘05 Renault is another Clio, incongruously offered up in Orem, Utah. Strange as is its appearance there, is its price to die for?
Read MoreThe Simpsons' Mr. Burns once famously said of his unflattering portrait "You know, I'm no art critic, but I know what I hate. And... I don't hate this." Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Voyager Art Van offers a lot not to hate, and it's up to you to say whether that includes its price.
Read MoreWho says mini trucks need to have mini power? Not me, and not the guy that built today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick-powered Courier either. Of course we're here to decide if its price is appreciably mini.
Read MoreCertain things just seem to go together- peas and carrots, Uggs and booty shorts (no, I can't explain that one), and Nice Price or Crack Pipe and cool cars that you can actually buy. Today's cool car that you can actually buy is a V8-powered Volvo, but do you think it and its price actually go together?
Read MoreThis year marks the 50th birthday of the most iconic sports car of them all, the Porsche 911. Now you can go the Jeremy Clarkson way and start bitching about how the whole idea of putting the engine in the rear was stupid, or start an argument about how it is only a tuned up Volkswagen, but no matter what you think, the 911 is here to stay. And we are glad for that.
Read MoreMost car names are nouns. A Note. A Mustang. A Probe. Sometimes they're proper nouns and named after places you'd probably never see such a car driven, like the Sorento. Occasionally, you'll get something that can be a verb, like the Juke. All words that make sense in English. And then you get names that are utter nonsense. What car name makes the least sense in English?
Read MoreDanger is one of the most defining aspects of motorsports. It’s been that way since the first “motoring contests” of the late 1800s, and it’s probably going to be true forever. The very fact that it involves huge, metal projectiles being driven around a course at high speeds while people stand around and watch means it’s going to be inherently unsafe. Drivers accept that risk, but in the most unfortunate of cases, the spectators are the ones who get hurt.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreEvery so often, you see a drier in the field who is hopelessly slower than his or her teammate, but always seems to get a seat for the next season. This person is what we call a pay driver.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWho is the first actor you think of when you think of motorsports? Paul Newman? James Garner? Steve McQueen? Patrick Dempsey? Jason Priestly? Tom Cruise?
Read MoreStories are told about how drivers change when the helmet goes on, the visor slams shut and the engines roar to life. Some say the "nice guy" demeanor is replaced by a wild, savage creature desperate for success, no matter the consequences.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreLast year's Ferrari F1 car, the F2012, started the year off in a bad way. First, it was ugly as sin. Second, it was also slow as sin. That's a bad combination for a team that is expected to win every time out.
Read MoreI'm happy that Fiat loaned me one of these, because, really, this was the car that started it all. It was about a year ago, and I had just gone on my first press drive. It was for the Fiat 500 Abarth, and I was pretty smitten. The little car had just that right mix of fun and usefulness without taking itself too seriously. So when I got home, I told my wife that if I had to get a modern car to, you know, make it less likely I'd kill our baby, I thought the 500 Abarth seemed like an interesting o
Read MoreWe've seen development mules of the next small Jeep crossover/SUV parading around for months. In our minds it was the 2014 Liberty, just wearing an Alfa Romeo Giulietta body but was also a good bit taller. Through these exclusive photos we've learned two things. First, it won't look anything like an Alfa. Second, it won't be a Liberty. This is the 2014 Jeep Cherokee. That's right, the Cherokee is back.
Read MoreYou might think that the 616 horsepower the MP4-12C gets out of McLaren's 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 is pretty much the limit of what's possible for a car that spends most of its time on public roads. Then comes the P1, and even if you don't count the 176 electric horses behind your back, that same 3.8 V8 suddenly has 727 horsepower. Here's how they work together to make 903 manic horsepower.
Read MoreWhen we showed you the 2014 Holden Commodore SS V, many of you wondered whether that car would have a stick shift when it was imported to America as the next Chevrolet SS. It turns out that if you want the manual, you're gonna have to go to Australia. Bummer.
Read MoreTrack driving is not something you can just immediately be very good at. It takes a lot of practice, and ideally you'd start in a slower car and work your way up to something fast. A Porsche 911 GT2 is not slow and isn't really the ideal car to learn in.
Read MoreThe Ferrari F150, their hypercar to replace the Enzo/work truck for the common man, will debut to the public in about a month's time at the Geneva Motor Show. It's going to be wonderful.
Read MoreYou’ll forgive this open ended question, because I heard of some engineering today that will make your heart weep.
Read MoreThere's a good chance that a surveillance satellite is taking pictures of your neighborhood right now, but you'll never know it's there. It's way too high above the Earth's surface to be seen by the naked eye. But there's something here on the ground that helped develop those satellites into the highly precise watching devices they are today: eye charts.
Read MoreSince 1972, the Landsat program has been beaming pictures of the Earth's surface down from outer space. Today, the eighth Landsat satellite was blasted into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on California's Central Coast.
Read MoreAs America's Arsenal for Democracy shifted its Nazi-ass-kicking apparatus into high gear during WWII, the rivet reigned supreme as the fastener of choice for heavy manufacturing. Everything from buildings and bridges to planes, tanks, and automobiles were stuck together with rivets, fastened into place by air gun-wielding factory workers.
Read MoreGetting tired of all the Tesla stories? I'm not. Getting away from the sideshow that is Elon Musk v. The NYT there's a much deeper truth about transportation and EVs buried in this story: driving a car from D.C. to Boston is a bad idea for most people. There's a much smarter, cheaper, and faster way to get from D.C. to Boston that's also environmentally friendly.
Read MoreI know they're not to everyone's tastes, but I'm starting to like this trend towards these digital instrument panels being installed in everything from a Chevy Spark to basically the whole fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover products. Some of these are well done and are able to showcase a lot of information now that engineers give us so much control over the information we can get or the changes to our car's settings we have the freedom to make.
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreChicago is a truck show, and so far the biggest truck news is an upgraded Tundra with the full Weber treatment on the grille, crisper lines all around, and more super lux editions for the latté-sipping metrucksexuals who make the truck market so lucrative.
Read MoreA 2-litre four-cylinder with 265 horsepower taking you to 62 mph in 6.4 seconds in an open-top VW Golf. That's what you can expect from the 2014 Golf R Cabriolet. And a nanny limiting it to 155, but that still doesn't keep it from being the fastest roofless Golf ever. Oh, it also won't be coming to America.
Read MoreVW goes retro again with the reincarnation of the original Beetle GSR from 1973. That yellow car had a matte black hood and bootlid, and 50 horsepower coming from the air-cooled boxer to rotate those "15 inch steel wheels as fast as possible. The new car ups the ante in the power department. Power quadruples (!) to 210 turbocharged horses and wheels grow four whole inches to 19-inch alloys with 235/40 tires. A lot changed in the last 40 years, apparently. That means the similarities pretty much
Read MoreHave you noticed a little too much bounce when you drive your car over bumps? Get out and push down on each corner of the car. If it bounces more than once or twice, it's time to replace the shocks or struts on that corner.
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